Bits and pieces

 

Here are some things by, or about, or that accompany the project, in no particular order.

 

China Families, a genealogy platform, that provides searchable access to different databases listing men and women of many different nationalities, professions and ages, who lived and worked in China between the 1850s and 1940.

A short film, commissioned in 2015 by the Arts & Humanities Research Council to mark its tenth anniversary.

‘Old Photographs Fever: The Search for China’s Pictured Past’, a BBC Radio documentary about the film, first broadcast in 2012, and its accompanying slideshow.

A book, Picturing China, 1870-1950: Photographs from British Collections, which we published to accompany our first exhibition, held at the Brunei Gallery, School of Oriental & African Studies, in 2007.

The Hong Kong History Centre, a University of Bristol initiative with an archiving strand inspired by Historical Photographs of China.

This entry on the University of Bristol Library Special Collections catalogue lists the collections of material that have been donated permanently and that are now housed by Special Collections.